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Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public (techcrunch.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Lots of venture capital money behind it. I wonder how quickly the enshitification will begin.

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[–] 143 points 9 months ago (12 children)

Anything that takes users away from Reddit, and forces Reddit to compete, is a plus for me.

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  • [–] 56 points 9 months ago

    Being owned by venture capitalists is pretty much an assurance that they'll turn it to shit as much as they can get away with. The entire reason people abandoned digg for reddit in the first place was because it was selling out to ad space and shill accounts and manipulation. The venture capitalists will want big returns on their investments.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    That’s a fair point. Reddit has been openly hostile to its own users these past several years. It might help moderate that to have another alternative on the table, even if it too is a soulless corporate enterprise.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    it got worst within the last year. they ban new users and old inactive accounts extremely fast. of course you can say its due to bots using same methods, this hasnt stopped bots in any case at all. its just targetting lowest hanging fruits.

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  • [+] -7 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    This is quite toxic attitude. You should focus on what's good for you - not what's bad for someone else.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I don't agree. We're not talking about a person or a charity. We're talking about a VC-backed company. They can fuck off and die, and it's not toxic – it's just common sense.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    But two corporate entities competing are better than one secure in it's market share. Anyone with any sense would reject both for a fediverse option if it could be made to work well enough obviously but still.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Only marginally... maybe. Duopolies are still really shitty for consumers and that's the best outcome to this. Significantly better would be if more people would realise what made internet amazing in the beginning and that logical consequences from that are that public spaces in the internet where the content comes from the people should be owned by the people.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    But competition IS good for me.

    If people start migrating to better experience and better communities, they’re going to have to step up to stop the bleeding.

    Reddit can get away with making terrible user experiences and killing 3rd party solutions because no alternative has lured enough of their base away.

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